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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Scott Cummings |
| ISBN: | 0887065775 9780887065774 0887065783 9780887065781 |
| OCLC Number: | 15316286 |
| Notes: | Cover title: Business elites & urban development. |
| Description: | xi, 395 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction. Private enterprise and public policy : business hegemony in the metropolis / Scott Cummings -- Part 1. Business elites and the growth agenda. Strategies and constraints of growth elites / Harvey Molotch -- The role of the performing arts in urban competition and growth / J. Allen Whitt -- Public investment in private businesses : the professional sports mania / Mark S. Rosentraub -- Public policy and private benefits : the case of industrial revenue bonds / Thomas S. Moore and Gregory D. Squires -- Part 2. Business elites and local government. Urban populism, uneven development, and the space for reform / Todd Swanstrom -- Municipal code enforcement and urban development : private decisions and public policy in an American city / Scott Cummings and Edmond Snider -- Chicago's North Loop redevelopment project : a growth machine on hold / Larry Bennett ... [et al.] -- Part 3. The social costs of urban growth and decline. Tallying the social costs of urban growth under capitalism : the case of Houston / Joe R. Feagin -- Downriver : deindustrialization in southwest Detroit / Richard Child Hill and Michael Indergaard -- Disinvestment and economic decline in northeastern Pennsylvania : the failures of a local business elite's growth agenda / Thomas J. Keil -- Part 4. Downtown prosperity and neighborhood poverty. Urban democracy and the power of corporate capital : struggles over downtown growth and neighborhood stagnation in Hartford, Connecticut / Kenneth J. Neubeck and Richard E. Ratcliff -- Fiscal and developmental crises in black suburbs / John R. Logan -- The limits to neighborhood power : progressive politics and local control in Santa Monica / David S. Daykin. |
| Series Title: | SUNY series on urban public policy. |
| Other Titles: | Business elites & urban development. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Scott Cummings. |
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